We are not going to have, as a president, a man who once led a mob of friends to run down a scared, gay kid, to hold him down and forcibly cut his hair off with a pair of scissors while that kid cried and screamed for help and there was no apology, not ever.

We are not going to have a Secretary of State John Bolton.

We are not bringing Dick Cheney back.

We are not going to have a foreign policy shop stocked with architects of the Iraq War.

We are not going to do it.

We had the chance to do that if we wanted to do that, as a country. And we said NO.

Wow, what a POWERFUL summation from Rachel!

With that resounding NO on November 6, 2012, today at 11:55 a.m., on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term and America will progress and move forward, not backward and downward.

With that, President Obama, in an unscripted, sentimental, candid moment, stopped to look back at the jubilant crowds who gathered in his honor.